Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Inaccuracy with new Kimber 84M Montana 7mm-08

Pretty hard to argue with that..

Im probably gonna get chastised for this, but a Kimber love-fest isn't something you see very often....


I am truly glad you guys are having good luck with yours.

Ingwe, no chastisement from me, but my experience with Kimbers leads me to believe the problem isn't the rifle, but is "the nut behind the butt."

Thats the issue with most rifles that have a "problem".....

I took my Kimber Classic from 1 1/2" shooter to 3/8" shooter. It took a 23" Broughton 5C SS barrel.

DF

Oh I have managed to shoot an excellent group or two from my 7mm-08. If I warm up the barrel first, and space the shots just right, so the barrel stays about the right temp.

But from a cold barrel, it's going to scatter them. Which makes it pretty useless as a hunting rifle. And the borescope says, "rough barrel"

Ruger Americans have earned a good reputation in a short time, for shooting well. I realize Kimbers have a lot of custom features for the money, but if Ruger can sell $400 rifles that have good barrels...

I agree, and I am too, and more power to all the Kimber guys. Just thinking back though, since I became hooked on big game hunting in 1971, I've never had a cartidge feeding problem from a non-crf design.

Had a Kimber in .204 Ruger and 22LR,if I want a Winchester M70 clone,I'll just buy a Winchester M70 instead.

Those two Kimbers shoot real good,just couldn't warm up to them.

I get it if you couldn't "warm" to them... they are a bit of a mattel-esque rifle in Montana guise... but an M70 can't be made as light.

Really two different rifles...

So,a M70 can't be made as light,doesn't bother me in the least.

This Featherweight 7x57 Mauser weighs just under 8 lbs and that is perfect in my mind.

Take a T3 Lite out of the box, mount a VX3, grab some factory ammo, and do the exact same thing with a Kimber. I'd lay money on which one will perform better.

Once again, I'm all for buying whatever floats a guy's boat no matter the cost. But this Kimber love fest as the Poobah says is really strange. It's almost like "Well I went and bought one, now I have to love it" kind of deals.

JFC.

It's the same comments every time a Kimber comes up. You can't compare a Tikka to a MT. They're not comparable.




Travis

Ingwe to be honest some I've had have been just great...and others have caused head scratching and it was a matter of figuring them out.If I felt like it...


But how hard I have been willing to work on them is likely the real issue.....

I am not as patient with rifles after 40 years of working with them, that I no longer have the patience with the things that I did before. Really....I don't care,I have better things to do with my time than mess with fussy rifles.....(like go fishing during off season or playing with grandkids).... and that applies no matter who makes the rifle,so if they don't do what I want I just get rid of the damned things.


Been years since I've been emotional about rifles and cartridges.I appreciate them but they are just tools.


I'd like (another) Kimber Montana 7/08 for hunting back east here.Not cause i love them, but because they are light.

Nope, not even close.

I consider the Kimber MT a mountain rifle and it suits my style of hunting. They aren't for everyone but it's hard to find a better light rifle for the money. It really doesn't take too much to get them to shoot well.

Edited your post a bit Bob.

Personally I'd not sit in a deer stand with anything but a blued, finely stock rifle. Something to admire passing the time. In that scenario I could care less about what it weigh's within reason.

The raison d'être of the Montana is packing a rifle long distances and up high. Guess that's why they called it "Montana." Shocking.

The Kimber is a specialized tool, not a general purpose one.

There are likely better rifles for most hunting, but there are very few for the Montana's niche.

And blued, wood-stocked rifles that weigh over 7.5lbs ain't one of them.

I agree, the Tikka T3 Super lite has a lot smoother action, a better trigger, and a better barrel.

However the T3 super lite does weigh 8 oz more so if you piss before you hit the mountain you'll weigh the same.

OK....Group Hug!

Shod

They are smooth. Until you put rounds in them.

Trigger? You're smoking bat schit.

If you're gonna drop coin on a quality push feed that comes close to low-weight, it should be on old Sako Foresters.



Travis

They are smooth. Until you put rounds in them.

Trigger? You're smoking bat schit.

If you're gonna drop coin on a quality push feed that comes close to low-weight, it should be on old Sako Foresters.


Travis [/quote]

Well at least I got the barrel part right.

That's pretty good for an Oregonian ya know!

Shod

Kimbers suck, Big time.

And they will continue to suck ginormous,

until I'm holding a lefty.

Discriminatory Racist pricks........